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David Wu won't resign; Nancy Pelosi seeks probe

Wu won't be running for reelection in 2012, but he won't be retiring, either. |
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“As a 21-year-old, I hurt someone I cared very much about. I take full responsibility for my actions, and I am very sorry,” Wu said in a statement to The Oregonian. “This single event forever changed my life and the person that I have become.”

Before last November’s elections, Wu began behaving erratically, including sending a picture of himself in a tiger costume to his staffers. More than a half-dozen aides and campaign consultants quit as Wu bombarded them with troubling phone calls and emails. Wu’s remaining staffers canceled all campaign events, relying on TV ads to win his race.

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After news reports of his odd behavior appeared in February and March, Wu began treatment for an unspecified mental health condition. Wu admitted that he “was not always at my best with staff or constituents” during the midterm campaign.

Even before The Oregonian story broke Friday, Democrats were already buzzing about more offbeat behavior by Wu. He accused congressional staffers of pilfering a lighter and demanded to be let onto the floor during the House’s opening prayer — a no-no — Democratic insiders said. Wu’s office declined to comment on that matter.

The new charges against Wu are just the latest in series of sex scandals to rock Capitol Hill during the past two years.

Weiner, a New York Democrat, resigned from Congress just weeks ago following a national firestorm over lewd photos he sent to women he met over the Internet.

Former Rep. Christopher Lee (R-N.Y.) was caught sending a topless online photo and also resigned. Former Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) had an affair with one of his campaign aides, who also happened to be the wife of his deputy chief of staff. Ensign stepped down May 3.

And former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) quickly departed Capitol Hill in March 2010 after POLITICO reported he was under investigation by the Ethics Committee over allegations he sexually harassed male staffers. The Ethics Committee recently announced it will continue looking into whether any Democratic lawmakers or staffers knew about those allegations but declined to take action against Massa.

Wu do what Waters did. Accuse the committee and have the committee investigated. Maybe you can get your case outsourced too. Rangel tried it and fail. Waters learned from Rangel case. Who knows Wu might do what Waters couldn't and just have his case thrown out. Pelosi is moving pretty fast isn't she. That's right Wu isn't black. Pelosi dragged and dragged on Rangel and Waters case didn't she.

While Mr. Wu continues to commit political suicide by molesting a teenaged female, after he had raped a female while in college; has been on drugs; crashed his car into another car; and other corrupt conduct, two of Oregon's politicians are now extending hopes that he gets the "help" that he needs. WHAT on earth are they doing? This IS the UNITED STATES CONGRESS, not a high school "feel good" party by the local school counselor!

Perhaps they do not remember Trent Lott's attempt to make ol' Strom Thurmond feel better as a dottering oldster who had no business remaining in the Senate so long. But, the effect caused Mr. Lott to retire from Congress.

Mr. Wu's conduct is MUCH worse.

David Wu is a criminal. Wu is not sane. Ask his former Campaign staff who QUIT en masse in the 2010 election.

This IS the Congress of the U.S. against whom Americans are SO angry that the defeat of the incumbents in 2012 is likely. Who trusts anyone the U.S. Government today? Anyone? And, two of Wu's pals in Congress are excusing his molesting of a teenager?

Boy will THAT make a great tv ad against Wu, against the Democrats, and particularly against those two members of Congress!

If the Democrats do not quickly move to remove Wu from Office, the Oregon Democratic Party will become Wu's next casualty given the Democrats' protection of Wu's crimes against a teenaged female, similar to the rapes of a 13 year old female by the Democrats' child rapist, Neil Goldschimdt (while he was mayor of Portland), who then became Sec. of Transportation under Jimmy Carter, then Governor of Oregon until the GOP confronted him with that evidence of his raping a child!). The Democrats of Oregon have an insane Congressman among them. THEY need to be the first to stand up to demand Wu's resignation, or be considered enablers of child molesters!

Then, after Wu is out of office, IF Wu wants to get treatment like anyone else. Great. But, GET HIM OUT of the Congress of the United States...NOW!

Is it possible for the Democrats to react to anything DIFFERENTLY than they have reacted in the past during similar situations? Sex scandals? 1. Don't say anything until you absolutely have to. 2. Remind public of any previous sex scandals (real or imagined) that Republicans were involved in. 3. If scandal is on front pages for at least one month, consider making a public statement. 4. Try and find any dirt on ANY Republican or just set them up; use media-they're always willing to help. 5. Refer matter to Ethics Committee-this will give you at least 2 yrs. to find a candidate to replace "caught" one. 6. Have Pelosi (between Botox appointments) make a statement saying said "offender" is a.) receiving spiritual counseling and/or b.) seeking rehabilitation at an undisclosed location. Don't even get me started on Tax and Spending...

I suppose you have to be a Republican scumbag to get a real story from POLITICO. How about some mention of the deafening silence from the same Democrat leadership who fell all over themselves to rid Congress of Mark Foley, and all he did was text youngsters not sexually assault one. But that is the climate and age we live in, where "so-called" Leaders talk from both sides of their mouths and adjust their crowing volume dependent on the political leaning of the criminal (Wu could have murdered someone and we would have the same pretzel dance from Pelosi and POLITICO)...and media, who with a straight face, tell us of their straight reporting and unbiased approach to politics (POLITICO) as we watch them gather the villagers with their torches for any Republican malfeasance while standing ready with buckets of water to douse the same villagers flames when said bad-actor is a Democrat...with an extra dose of "nothing to see here....move along" for good measure. POLITICO, you were OK for about a year, then slid directly into the DNC maw and haven't looked back. The only real embarrassment you deal anymore, as your reporting is so biased is not worth noticing anymore, is the continued pretense that you are not bought and paid for by the DNC. Wu should go now. Pelosi and her gang should call for his head immediately, just like they did Foley's, and just like POLITICO did. Foley needed to be thrashed, but so does this lowlife scumbag. Have you any decency Democrat party? And why wouldn't POLITICO think that as well? Oh yeah, another Democrat going down the tubes doesn't help Obama or the DNC's agenda. I got it POLITICO.

But Mark Foley had to go, I mean he was texting young boys racy texts and all. So much for Liberals being for women, I guess your just not for women if they are the prey for sexual predator Democrat Congressmen. Then you sacrifice those women for a vote in the house. By all means, keep Wu around to troll after those Republicans children. Even children can be sacrificed if they are satisfying the urges of a predator Democrat. Nice to see the scruple of the DNC on full display.

Wu is just another career politician who thinks he can get away with anything and who thinks he's entitled to his position. It's the height of arrogance, even in the face of criminal conduct. The voters in Oregon need to replace this Liberal Democrat if he refuses to resign. Dump them all, and Obama too, in 2012.

If the Rangel and Waters ethics cases are indicative of an expected time-line for the Wu investigation, old Wu will be termed out, before the report makes its twists and turns through the extremely slow ethics investigation process, which is by design. The hope in these investigations is for people to have a short memory, so that in the end a slap on the wrist is applied and the matter is swept under the rug. In Rangel's case, he was slapped, but still easily won reelection, because being a rent control thief and a tax cheat are not necessarily a bad thing in his district. Maxine Waters is being investigated for steering TARP money to her husbands bank more than 2 1/2 years ago, but no resolution for that transgression is on the horizon, and her seat is as safe as was crooked Charlies. If Wu is not running again, then why waste the taxpayers money conducting an endless sham investigation to nowhere??

Dear Constuurents, ahh me so solly adout fondring and a having a sex with teen girl. Me so clazzy ina tiger costume and stupid lazy American Nancy Perosi to busy to make me reave. Most humble aporogies but I can do anything cause I am interectual asian amelican.